PLACE NEARBY

Sanganer (12 Kms) :
Tonk road it has beautiful Jain temples and important craft industries beside the ruined palaces, broken city walls, triple gateways and neglected Mughal garden. Large and small units of block and screen printers produce some of the finest hand printed textiles in the country admired everywhere.

Bagru (35 Kms) :
It is southwest on Ajmer road. The ground level fort is still in good shape. Its attraction is hand printed cloth industry. The designs are simpler here, the technique less complicated and the colors of more earthy shades.

Ramgarh Lake (32 Kms) :
To the north-east It is famous for its huge artificial lake created by constructing a high bund amidst tree covered hills where the citizen throng in a large number for picnic during the rainy season. The temple or Jarnwa Mata and the ruins of the old fort still remind of its hoary antiquity.

Samod (45 Kms) :
It is to the north-east. The old palace renovated and rebuilt provides the most gorgeously decorated and painted examples of Rajput havelis architecture. It provides an ideal spot for outing.

Bairath (86 Kms) :
On the Shahpura-Alwar road, it contains the relics and structures at Mauryan, Mughal and Rajpur periods. The excavated remains of a circular Buddhist temple unique in Rajasthan and the earliest temple in India make it an important historical place. Akbar the great constructed a mint and his son Jahangir a beautiful Mughal garden and a remarkable monument with painted chhatris and walls.

Abhaneri (128 Kms) :
Northeast off the Agra road near Bandikui. It is famous for the temple of Harshad Mata built in the 7th-8th century and the stepped Chanda baoli. Two Jain temples were built at a later period.

Sambhar (94 Kms) :

In the west, it is famous for the country largest inland salt lake. It is also known for holy Devayani tank, the palace and the nearby Naliasar.

Jaisinghpura Khor (12 Kms) :
On Amer road. One of the settlements of the Meena tribe, it has an imposing fort, a Jain temple and a step well in picturesque location.

Madhaogarh Tunga (40 Kms) :
On Bassi-Lalsot off Agra road. One of the historic battles between Jaipur forces and Marathas was fought at Tunga. Commanding a splendid landscape, the fort of Madhaogarh nestles amidst mango orchards